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Follow this thread for live updates from our panel on building a green wall. With speakers @benhouchen @matpaterson @rainnewtonsmith @rehmanwalaAsif and @ninaskorupska.
Discussion on how renewables can catalyse levelling up at panel at #CPC22
Follow this thread for live updates from our panel on building a green wall. With speakers @benhouchen @matpaterson @rainnewtonsmith @rehmanwalaAsif and @ninaskorupska.
Discussion on how renewables can catalyse levelling up at panel at #CPC22
Our chair @AkashPaun introduces the panel. We'll be discussing if decarbonisation is working and if the drive to net zero can deliver long term energy security.
Our first speaker is @NinaSkorupska
There are around 148k people working in the renewable energy sector. Nina describes how renewable energy and clean technology plays an important role.
There are around 148k people working in the renewable energy sector. Nina describes how renewable energy and clean technology plays an important role.
Will renewables help the cost of living now asks @NinaSkorupska
There has never been a better time to consider clean technology in the home and in industry she tells us.
There has never been a better time to consider clean technology in the home and in industry she tells us.
Now we have @MatPaterson speaking. On the cost of living, renewables can help but only as part of a package. But expanding fossil fuel supply will do nothing to help the immediate crisis.
We need the aggressive pursuit of energy efficiency says @MatPaterson
We also need to dampen demand.
Renewables in the longer term are an important part of the long term solution for freeing ourselves from dependence on gas.
We also need to dampen demand.
Renewables in the longer term are an important part of the long term solution for freeing ourselves from dependence on gas.
Dealing with electric vehicle infrastructure is also important @MatPaterson tells us.
Renewables are a cheap form of energy - but also less profitable.
Renewables are a cheap form of energy - but also less profitable.
Next up is @BenHouchen discussing how renewables need to be affordable, easy to use and you need to "take the customer along with you".
This is an easier thing for the industrial clusters (in Teeside for example) to buy into than other parts of the country.
This is an easier thing for the industrial clusters (in Teeside for example) to buy into than other parts of the country.
Teeside is leading the way in decarbonisation @BenHouchen tells the audience.
Fundamentally renewables can provide solutions but there needs to be a transition.
We need to communicate to the public there is no quick fix. Energy security is a journey.
Fundamentally renewables can provide solutions but there needs to be a transition.
We need to communicate to the public there is no quick fix. Energy security is a journey.
Outdated regulation is standing in the way of businesses being able to invest in renewables says @BenHouchen
Certainty is needed on these technologies.
Certainty is needed on these technologies.
The next speaker on this panel is @RainNewtonSmith of @CBItweets
She says we don't talk enough about the demand side of the equation.
She says we don't talk enough about the demand side of the equation.
We need to think about how households are using energy says @RainNewtonSmith
Around 20% of emissions come from homes.
We need to use this opportunity to double down on investment in onshore wind and offshore wind. Long term reform is needed.
Around 20% of emissions come from homes.
We need to use this opportunity to double down on investment in onshore wind and offshore wind. Long term reform is needed.
Projects around green hydrogen, net zero projects in Teesside and an upcoming report with @OfficialUoM on carbon capture and storage are mentioned by @RainNewtonSmith
Our final panellist is @RehmanwalaAsif of @ecotricity
He tells us that there has been big growth in renewables. While coal has gone from 60% to almost zero.
But our energy mix is currently 40% gas and it doesn't need to be.
He tells us that there has been big growth in renewables. While coal has gone from 60% to almost zero.
But our energy mix is currently 40% gas and it doesn't need to be.
Onshore wind applications have been inhibited by government policy says @RehmanwalaAsif
He says policymakers should "get out of the way" to make planning easier for established technology such as offshore wind.
He says policymakers should "get out of the way" to make planning easier for established technology such as offshore wind.
Our chair @AkashPaun asks what the panel would like to hear from the Conservative government to push this agenda.
We have available solutions says @NinaSkorupska but we haven't had clarity and consistency of policy. Nina asks that the energy security bill continues to march forward.
The net zero agenda is understood by the current chancellor we are told by @BenHouchen
He echoes the sentiments of the panel of a lack of certainty being a barrier.
He echoes the sentiments of the panel of a lack of certainty being a barrier.
There are fundamental reforms behind the scenes to the energy grid that are needed @BenHouchen states.
@RehmanwalaAsif agrees that "alignment" is needed.
@RehmanwalaAsif agrees that "alignment" is needed.
Now for questions from our audience.
Innovation is needed. How can we get the necessary R&D to get industry transitioned asks @RichardALJones
Innovation is needed. How can we get the necessary R&D to get industry transitioned asks @RichardALJones
Audience question: There has been infighting between different types of energy supply. We didn't "fix the roof while the sun was shining" - or install solar panels.
@rehmanwalaAsif says there is an opportunity for a big push on solar but it needs to be well regulated.
@rehmanwalaAsif says there is an opportunity for a big push on solar but it needs to be well regulated.
On the question of competing technologies @BenHouchen thinks the government policy needs to be more agnostic than it currently is.
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